Zero Gravity Corporation

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VIENNA, VA - June 10, 2009 - Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G(R)), the first and only FAA-approved provider of commercial weightless flights, will host its exclusive ZERO-G Weightless Experience once again in San Jose, California on Saturday, July 11. ...

 Maldives Noah Fulmor and Erin Finnegan will be floating -- possibly upside down -- as they say "I do" in a specially modified Boeing 727-200 departing Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on June 20, a statement from Zero Gravity Corporation said. ...

 NY When they heard that Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G) had become FAA-approved to provide weightless flights to the public, they signed up. Their nuptials will take place aboard a specially modified Boeing 727-200 aircraft, in the zero gravity created ...

Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G®), the first and only FAA-approved provider of commercial weightless flights, will host its exclusive ZERO-G Weightless Experience for the very first time in Seattle, Washington on Sunday, June 28. ...

 IL He took a prep-flight later in 2007, thanks to the Zero Gravity Corporation, where he experienced weightlessness eight times without being confined to his wheelchair for the first time in years (which must have been a blast). ...

 FL Written by Tim Bailey, a Flight Director for Zero-Gravity Corporation and the president of the Florida Space Coast chapter of the National Space Society, the article takes a critical look at the agency, declaring at one point, "Florida’s space ...

 MD - Dec 8, 2008 A few years ago a commercial venture, Zero Gravity Corporation or ZERO-G, started performing similar flights for almost anyone who can pay the $4950 price. ...

 FL - Dec 5, 2008 Owned and operated by the Zero Gravity Corporation, the plane offers a select group of Florida school teachers the chance to experience weightlessness. ...

 UK - Dec 2, 2008 Las Vegas-based company Zero Gravity Corporation, which leases its aircraft to Nasa, created zero-gravity conditions for 30 seconds at a time, by performing ...

From June 2002 until January 2003, he was Vice President of Marketing for Zero Gravity Corporation. Mr. Whitesides received an undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1996, he was a Fulbright Scholar from October 1996 until ...

By Mark Frauenfelder Together we are watching an orientation video screened by Zero Gravity Corporation, after which we will ride a bus to San Jose International Airport, where a modified Boeing 727-200 is waiting for us. In a suitably empty block of ...

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By gjblass Eventually, one day, if all went well, some sort of custom arena would be constructed. On Mars. Enlarge This Image. Zero Gravity Corporation. Ken Harvey, a former Washington Redskins linebacker in a zero-gravity plane. ...

By Nancy Atkinson Is a personal spaceflight or zero-g experience on your Bucket List? If so, how do you prepare for this once-in-a-lifetime event? How can you get the most out of your flight and create a lasting memory? With several commercial spaceflight companies preparing to launch suborbital touris...

By dianehawk Then, weightlessness. The Zero Gravity Corporation brochures liken the experience to a zen-like, exalted state of bliss. But for the teachers (and journalists) on our flight, I think there was too much fun going on for anyone to ...

By Michael Lee Hong-hwee Spaceballs - [Image: Courtesy of the Zero Gravity Corporation, via the *New York Times*]. If Kevin Slavin and Sam Jacob had a baby – under the medical supervision of Ale... 3 days ago ...

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 New York - Oct 5, 2008 Dr. Peter Diamandis, Chairman and CEO of Zero Gravity Corporation and the driving force behind the X Prize Foundation, will be honored with the 2008 ...

An alternative offered since 2004 by the Zero Gravity Corporation, costs roughly $5100. Zero-G's Boeing 727 aircraft reaches an altitude of about 34000 feet, where it maneuvers in such a way that achieves a weightless atmosphere for ...

By media-newswire.com WASHINGTON -- NASA for the first time last week used microgravity research flights aboard commercially-owned aircraft to test hardware and technologies. These flights, on an airplane operated by the Zero Gravity Corporation, ...

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By osgc Present your work to senior officials at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.; Choose between: Experiencing weightlessness - identical to what astronauts experience in space - aboard the Zero Gravity Corporation’s specially modified ...

By alain The rack will fly aboard NASA’s first commercially-provided research flights on Zero Gravity Corporation’s reduced gravity aircraft. Flight testing of the FASTRACK Space Experiment Platform will be performed on four consecutive days ...

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led them to the Zero Gravity Corporation. Best known for their FAA-approved 'weightless' parabolic flights, Zero-G modified their flight plan to provide the extra time in the one-sixth gravity environment needed by the Mythbusters. ...

By Justin Kugler After eleven years of tenacity to get FAA approval, Diamandis’ Zero Gravity Corporation is also a success. It is a commercial parabolic flight services organization that fills the role once performed by the “Vomit Comet” at Ellington. ...

By Stephen Cass The process: The plane flies through a series of parabolas; approaching the top of each parabola, passengers are accelerated upward, becoming weightless as they go over the hump. The Las Vegas–based Zero Gravity Corporation supplies ...

“Space Florida and Zero Gravity Corporation are trying to reach thousands of teachers and create a complete and innovative program that both promotes space education and attracts more commercial and government aerospace activities to ...

By Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides NASA announced yesterday that they are awarding a $4.7 million dollar contract to Zero Gravity Corporation to provide weightless flights to NASA-operated experiments and personnel. Although on the order of.

By noreply@blogger.com (Nino Del Padre) Mark and Joe had a chance to shoot video for long-time collaborator Brad McLain, on a “zero-gravity" aircraft flight that creates temporary weightlessness. NASA has used this method to train its astronauts for the last 45 years and it's the same way Tom Hanks floated in Apollo 13.

By The Times Picayune Partnering with the Zero Gravity Corporation, the foundation is sponsoring the flights in eight cities across the country this year. For Thursday's flight, school districts throughout the Gulf Coast invited teachers to take part in the ...

By lonestar1 The Northrop Grumman Foundation is continuing its successful program of microgravity aircraft flights for teachers. Together with Zero Gravity Corporation, Northrop Grumman flew 248 teachers on 12 flights in 2006. In 2007, they have 16 flights scheduled.

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PR-inside.com) GRAND FORKS, N.D., May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- New Forks, LLC ( http://www.newforks.net/ ) announced today that its 60,000th subscriber to their online space magazine will win an official ticket for a flight experiencing 'weightlessness.' The winner's open ticket was purchase...

By Sigurd De Keyser The following is a statement from Alan Stern, NASA associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at Headquarters in Washington, regarding renowned physicist Stephen Hawking’s flight aboard Zero Gravity Corporation’s Boeing ...

Zero Gravity Corporation, a private company, usually charges 3500 dollars for the flight, but the famed Cambridge professor got a free ride, with another eight seats auctioned off for charity. Specially trained pilots took the plane up ...

Zero Gravity Corporation, a private company, usually charges 3500 dollars for the flight, but the famed Cambridge professor got a free ride, with another eight seats auctioned off for charity. Specially trained pilots took the plane up ...

As we previously reported he would, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking got a taste of weightlessness yesterday courtesy of a Zero Gravity Corporation modified 727. According to MSNBC.com, "the jet carrying Hawking, a handful of his physicians and nurses, and dozens of others first flew up...

Calling the experience "amazing," Professor Stephen Hawking told a group of reporters about his ride aboard 90-minute flight aboard G-FORCE ONE, a specially-modified, 35-passenger Boeing 727-200. Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G®), and...

British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking will be going up on a zero gravity flight Thursday, April 26, 2007. Flying with Zero-Gravity Corporation, the flight is a spin-off of the KC-135 “Vomit Comet” flights that NASA uses to study space ...

Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who has spent his career pondering the nature of gravity, is set to experience weightlessness for himself during a special flight usually reserved for trainee astronauts."The idea is to give the world's expert on gravity the opportunity to experience...

First I’d like to thank Zero Gravity Corporation, The Sharper Image and Peter Diamandis for arranging this for me. Second, I’d like to thank Space Florida and the NASA Kennedy Space Center for being my host. The Space Shuttle Landing ...

If you’re looking for an out-of-this world experience, Zero Gravity Corporation will launch you to weightlessness for USD $3750. The cost covers training sessions too so you don’t have to worry about making a galactic goof of yourself. ...

By Leonard David Diamandis said the plan is for Hawking to float free during a single microgravity-generating maneuver by the aircraft. “We will first see how he does,” he told SPACE.com, and then decide on a second and probably third parabola. One of the world’s top experts in gravity is set to shuck off Eart...

By Remi M. Said Hawking when asked about this unusual trip, he wanted to show "that people need not be limited by physical handicaps, as long as they are not disabled in spirit". Lord British is of course not a newbie in this field - he is a space enthusiast and has gone on three zero-gravity flights befo...

By Leonard David Regular ZERO-G flights depart from Las Vegas and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ZERO-G is the first and only Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved provider of weightless flight to the general public, as well as the entertainment and film industries; corporate and incen...

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By Terry Piper Zero Gravity Corporation uses a specially remodeled Boeing 727-200 airplane for the space rides. According to the TSA, the aircraft has perhaps the best safety record of any modern airliner and does very well in "hot and high" ...

By Matt Bowes World reknowned expert on gravity Stephen Hawking is set to become more intuitively acquainted with his subject. Peter Diamandis, founder of the X-Prize and now CEO of Zero Gravity Corporation, announced that his company is giving Dr. ...

The flight, operated by Zero Gravity Corporation, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based space tourism and entertainment company, will take off and return to a landing strip at the Kennedy Space Center. "As someone who has studied gravity and ...

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The operational base of Zero Gravity Corporation (often called ZERO-G) is Dania Beach, Florida (south of Fort Lauderdale) and its headquarters is Santa Monica, California. The company operates commercial weightless flights that are ...

Photo courtesy of Zero Gravity Corporation Eating small pieces of candy might be a problem if there was no gravity on Earth. Before looking at changes in gravity however, it is helpful to first understand what gravity is. ...

By tripcart We're having issues keeping our heads out of the clouds these days - after pining away for a trip to space on Virgin Galactic we've opted for the next best thing - the feeling of weightlessness with Zero Gravity Corporation....